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For the funeral services A few steps

Only a short distance from the Piazza del Duomo which frames the great compositions of medieval Christianity, the dome of Brunelleschi and the campanile of Giotto the Piazza della Signoria provides a sort of spacious courtyard for the Palazzo Vecchio ancient headquarters for the twelve guilds which constituted the Republic of Florence. Thus the former was planned and erected to reflect the glory of God, and its success as a work of art was measured in terms of its responsiveness to the divine ideal etc